Victories

In re Samsung Top-Load Washing Machine Marketing Sales Practices

Samsung sold top-loading washing machines that sometimes violently vibrate and “explode,” but the settlement provides mostly mail-in rebates to class members. Attorneys should not be able to guarantee a generous fee award for themselves while class members are stuck at best with rebate coupons that require them to buy again from the allegedly negligent defendant. The district court reduced the fee award, but otherwise approved the settlement.

<em>In re Samsung Top-Load Washing Machine Marketing Sales Practices</em>
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Berni v. Barilla

Class member and CCAF attorney Adam Schulman objected to a slack fill settlement that provides class members with worthless labeling changes.

<em>Berni v. Barilla</em>

In re Petrobras Securities Litigation

On June 25, 2018, Judge Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York largely agreed with the objector concerning contract attorney billing, which results in nearly $100 million additional dollars going to class members. In spite of the successful objection, CCAF was only awarded $11,000 in attorneys fees.

<em>In re Petrobras Securities Litigation</em>
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Frank v. Gaos

Class members and CCAF attorneys Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak take their objection to Google search settlement to the Supreme Court. The settlement provided $0 to class members, but divided $8.5 million between the plaintiffs’ lawyers and third party cy pres recipients.

<em>Frank v. Gaos</em>

Ma v. Harmless Harvest, Inc.

The proposed settlement provided class members with worthless injunctive relief, simply codifying labeling changes that Harmless Harvest voluntarily made in 2015, but would have provided $575,000 to attorneys and named plaintiffs. The court agreed with CCAF that the settlement was not fair, reasonable, and adequate.

<em>Ma v. Harmless Harvest, Inc.</em>

Knapp v. Art.com Inc.

Under the settlement, class members will receive $10 vouchers for use on Art.com's ecommerce sites. The settlement has hallmarks of the coupon-settlement abuse that Congress targeted with the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005.

<em>Knapp v. Art.com Inc.</em>
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